360: Chris “Dune” Malik Pastras…Great photo by Todd Laffler

Great photo.Maybe one of the all time great skate photos. Todd Laffler is good at creating Iconic images..couple things I dig here, Dune is one of my favorite books(admittedly unrelated) also this is my old neighborhood and I can smell the Krispy Kreme donuts just off camera to the right and another is I couldn’t do a g turn (I must admit I could barely do a lower case i turn) to save my life let alone a knee scraping stylish one including such a dramatic and iconic back drop…well done. As far as Dune goes? … chime in and tell everyone about him and his skating and Stereo Sound Agencyness

Here is a cool piece written by an old friend Derek Rinaldi for the Stereo Sound Agency Blog

Hey Jason. Thanks for posting this for us! I used to skate with Dune “back in the day”. I lived pretty close to him and we used to skate in Metuchen NJ (where he lived at the time). We used to hit a place called the Golf Banks pretty hard. It was this really cool paved embankment with parking blocks all along the top. In fact If I remember correctly, they put the parking blocks there one day to try and stop us from skating there. Ironically it had the opposite effect! I think I have some potentially embarrassing footage of dune singing Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” while tic-tacing around there too. Don’t worry Dune, I’ll keep that one under my cap! I also remember hitting Cheap Skates a lot with Dune and Woody. Many fond memories going there in 89/90. One day I will try to find some time and dig out all my old footage of the Shut guys ripping it up!

Chris(DUNE)Pastras is probably on Wiki with more then I can add. He is tied to starting Stereo skateboard company inthe early 90’s and then restarted in early 2000 after a break. I believe he started Stereo with Jason Lee back in the day.